{"id":2443924,"date":"2019-05-08T08:49:31","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T14:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=831245"},"modified":"2019-05-08T08:49:31","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T14:49:31","slug":"song-you-need-to-know-desertion-trio-twilight-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-desertion-trio-twilight-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Song You Need to Know: Desertion Trio, \u2018Twilight Time\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/desertion-trio.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">The cool thing about covering a 60-year-old song is that you probably couldn\u2019t copy the original even if you wanted to, so you might as well take it somewhere weird. That\u2019s the approach Philadelphia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/jazz\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jazz\" data-tag=\"jazz\">jazz<\/a> guitarist Nick Millevoi opts for on the title track of his new album, <a href=\"https:\/\/nickmillevoi.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><em>Twilight Time<\/em><\/a>, which features an expanded version of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z69JdykvlCs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">his band Desertion Trio<\/a> putting their spin on various Fifties and Sixties pop tunes. The results are both warmly nostalgic and potently surreal.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LyF1laEVvaQ?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As Millevoi and organist Ron Stabinsky launch into the dramatic chords of the Platters\u2019 dreamy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wvRe_pt9XHo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">1958 R&amp;B hit<\/a>, guest vocalist Tara Middleton \u2014 often heard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=v7Sosyn_X3U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">with the Sun Ra Arkestra<\/a> \u2014 belts out the opening lines (\u201cHeavenly shades of night are falling\/It\u2019s twilight time\u201d), her voice bathed in old-school reverb. Underneath, bassist Johnny DeBlase and drummer Kevin Shea roil and churn in a free-jazz\u2013inspired frenzy that recalls both <a href=\"https:\/\/manyarms.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Many Arms<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wqK-hPgFZ3M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Coptic Light<\/a>, intense, challenging avant-rock bands that Desertion Trio\u2019s members formerly played in. (Full disclosure: I\u2019m friendly with the members of Desertion Trio, and have played music with Shea.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Instead of clashing, the track\u2019s melodic and chaotic elements feel wholly intertwined. As the track progresses, through brief, passionate solos from Millevoi and Stabinsky and on into the song\u2019s yearning bridge, what might seem on the surface like an anarchic deconstruction of a sentimental chestnut starts to feel more like a stakes-raising celebration of the song\u2019s eerie emotional pull. Millevoi &amp; Co.\u2019s gritty take might be anachronistic, but it reminds you both how much power there was in the original, and how many wild sonic textures have arisen in the decades since.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/nick-millevoi-desertion-trio-twilight-time-platters-831245\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cool thing about covering a 60-year-old song is that you probably couldn\u2019t copy the original even if you wanted to, so you might as well take it somewhere weird. That\u2019s the approach Philadelphia jazz guitarist Nick Millevoi opts for on the title track of his new album, Twilight Time, which features an expanded version [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2443924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 17:45:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}